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Please offer your good advices -
A friend of mine and I have a disagreement about sexing seedlings when placing them into the 12/12 cycle.
I say that you should sex ASAP when the plant is only 4-6 inches tall with just a couple of sets of opposing leaves.
He says that you should wait until the plant is older, fully mature, with many branches and ready to flower permanently; minimum 2-3 feet tall.
What do you think ladies & gents?
I've heard two guidelines, wait at least two weeks or until the plant has grown a fifth node.
If you have the room you are always better off sexing a clone so the plant can keep on growing with as little stress as possible.
You just cut a clone root it and the flower the rooted clone. Now you get the proper sex and no stress on the growing plant and no step backward waiting for the plant to catch up to finish vegging.
I agree with Zandor.
you can do either, but i supose sexing a seedling is better, cos then your not wasting time growing a big plant and then having to kill it.
You CAN wait, but 3 foot sounds a tad tall. They will finish at atleast double that size, so you gotta be sure theres enough room in the grow room.
lip you have no idea what his grow space is? Dude once he swiches to 12/12 there not going to dubble higth + thats stuiped. Claiming a 15-35% at most is more reasonable when budding your shits not shooting up 2X+ lip thats rediculas:smokin: so IMO 3ft will get 4ft at MAX during 12/12 it wont be 6ft + roflQuote:
Originally Posted by LIP
so once you cut a clone and root it, how long do you give it 20/4 fluoro for? and then u flower it?
hey easy with my m8 lip he knows what he is on aboutQuote:
Originally Posted by Krogith
he tells the facts that he has seen his self in his own grows so you saying this is bassicly calling him a liar have you seen any of his grows to make you think this ? probally not!!!!, in most cases i have seen this too and i totally agree during flowering under oprimal conditions the plant can double in size and sometimes triple in size so this makes me think you are growing wrong or dont have the same sort of growing conditions as lip , maybe if you asked him what his grow specs are he would tell ya !!!!
man i hate people that are quick to put people down on here there is no need at all ,this is a place where people can compare grows and techniques and get some advice
cheers all :)
Thanks guys and yeah LIP & Zandor that is what I am asserting.
Why waste nutes, space and time (most important!) just to find out that you have a male on your hands that you have to chop?
Even with great lineage, females are still only about 60% of your crop.
That is over 1/3rd of your space (time & money) gone to waste.
Down side is that you have to revert the tiny ones back to 18/6 vegging which also takes time get them beefed up for final flowering.
BTW - Dutch Passion feminized seeds truly have very good female rates of over 90%!:thumbsup:
Your an idiot. YOU are ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Krogith
Thanks buster.
...to further clarify, this would be for determination of a couple of mothers for cloning purposes.
Cloning is the way to go if you have the space available.